REPORT 







ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE 

Summit Coal Company 

SITUATED IN 

Marshall County, State of West Virginia, 


BY 

LEO VON ROSENBERG. 


Accompanied by Several Maps and Illustrations 


WITH EXTRACTS FROM 

SEVERAL ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE 
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 

AND 

VOL. TWO, COAL REPORT, 

WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 

DR. I. C. WHITE, State Geologist. 


NEW YORK 
September 25TH, 1903. 


Copyright, 1903, by Summit Coal Company, 170 Broadway, New York. 






REPORT 


ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE 


Summit 

Coal Company 


SITUATED IN 


Marshall County* State of West Virginia. 

BY 

LEO VON ROSENBERG. 

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Accompanied by Several Maps and Illustrations 


SEVERAL 

WITH EXTRACTS FROM "'I jj” .1 /*, \, 

> 2 2 2.’, !»G,' S',? 

ANNUAL REPORTS OF,,/TOE 

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U. S. 

, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY- ' 


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VOL. TWO, COAL REPORT, 

WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 

DR. I. C. WHITE, State Geologist. 

NEW YORK 

September 25 TH, 1903 . 


Copyright, 1903, by Summit Coal Company, 170 Broadway, New York. 





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Literature and Authorities. 


West Virginia Geological Survey, Volume Two, 

Report on Coal, by Dr. I. C. White, State Geologist. 

“The Northern Appalachian Coal Field.” 

Twenty-Second Annual Report of the U. S. Geological 
Survey. 

“The Appalachian Coal Field,” 

Fourteenth Annual Report of the U. S. Geological 
Survey. 


/•Bulletin 65, U.: S; Geological Survey. 

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Maryland Geological Survey, Wm. Bullock Clark, State Geologist, 


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REPORT 


ON 

The Properties of the Summit Coal Company 

LOCATION AND GENERAL FEATURES 

The properties of this Company, consisting of two large coal 
tracts, are situated in the County of Marshall, State of West Vir¬ 
ginia. They lie in the heart of the Northern Appalachian coal field, 
which is by far the most important of the bituminous coal fields of 
the United States in area, in the quality of its coal, the number 
and thickness of workable beds, and in importance and accessibility 
of its markets. 

The tracts are known as the “Belton” Coal Tract, and the 
“Glen Easton” Coal Tract. 

The BELTON tract, consisting of 6500 acres of Coal Lands, is 
situated in the southeastern part of the county, on the main line of the 
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, about three miles west of the state line of 
Pennsylvania, and about 60 miles southwest of the city of Pittsburg, 
Pa. On the railroad which follows the easterly boundary of the tract 
and Fish creek for some distance, is the town of Belton, now known 
as Denver station. A short distance west of Belton, however, the 
railroad takes a general northerly direction, while the creek takes a 
general westerly course through the Company’s tract for several 
miles, meandering toward the Ohio river, a navigable stream some 
20 miles west of Belton. On the east bank of this river runs the 
Ohio River railroad, controlled by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. 

The elevation of Belton is 893 feet above sea-level The eleva¬ 
tions along Fish creek decrease gradually toward the Ohio river, and 
at the point it reaches the river, the elevation is 640 feet above sea-level. 
The hills on the property rise from four hundred to five hundred feet 
above the valleys. There is ample room at and near Belton, and along 


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Fish creek for tracks, hoisting works and buildings, which may be 
required by the Company. 

A map of the tract accompanies this report. 

The GLEN EASTON tract, consisting of about 4800 acres 
of coal lands, lies immediately northwest of the Belton tract, practi¬ 
cally adjoining it. 

The main line of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad runs for about 
two miles along the northern boundary of the tract, through the valley 
of Grave creek. The main station along the tract is Glen Easton, 
situated about 4., miles west of Cameron, 12 miles northwest of Belton, 
and 14 miles southeast of Moundsville, the county seat of Marshall, 
county. Loudenville, a station 2 \ miles east of Glen Easton, is at the 
eastern edge of the tract. Glen Easton lies at an elevation of 970 
feet above sea-level. The valley of Grave creek, through which the 
railroad runs, offers many favorable sites for the erection of works, 
and for the construction of necessary sidings, buildings, etc. On the 
ridges and ravines within the tract, as well as on lands contiguous to it 
are many oil wells, as will be seen by the photographs accompanying 
this report. 

A map of this tract is included in this report. The tracts being 
large, the scale of the maps is necessarily very small. 

THE COAL VEINS. 

The principal vein on the property is known as the “Pittsburg,” 
which is the base of the Monongahela series. Of this Vein, Dr. I. C. 
White, State Geologist of West Virginia, in Volume Two of the 
West Virginia Geological Survey, says : 

THE PITTSBURG COAL. 

“ Among the rich mineral deposits of the great Appalachian 
field, the Pittsburg coal bed stands pre-eminent. Other coal beds 
may cover a wider area, or extend with greater persistence, but 
none surpass the Pittsburg seam in economic importance and 
value. It was well named by Rogers (H. D.) and his able 
assistants of the First Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, in 
honor of the city to whose industrial growth and supremacy it 




DENVER STATION, OR BELTON, AT BELTON COAL TRACT, ON MAIN LINE OF B. & 0. R. 






































Most of the Wells have passed through the Pittsburg Vein. oil, WELLS ON FISH CREEK. 




























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has contributed so much. Whether or no the prophetic eye 
of that able geologist ever comprehended fully the part which 
this coal bed was to play in the future history of the city which 
gave it a name, we do not know ; but certain it is that the seven 
feet of fossil fuel, which in Rogers’ time circled in a long black 
band around the hills, and overlooking the site of Pittsburg from 
an elevation of 400 feet above the waters of the Allegheny and 
Monongahela, extending up the latter stream in an unbroken 
sheet for a distance of 200 miles, has been the most potent 
factor in that wonderful growth which has made the Pittsburg 
district the manufacturing centre of the world.” 

“ That this claim for the supremacy of the Pittsburg district 
(including Wheeling and the Monongahela river region) is 
valid can hardly be doubted, when we see its iron, steel, glass 
and other products going to every part of the western conti¬ 
nent, and even invading the long established manufacturing 
dynasties of Europe.” 


GAS AND COKE. 

(Page 221.) 

“ The great value of the Pittsburg coal consists in the 
variety of uses for which it is adapted. Yielding fine results 
as a general steam and domestic fuel, it is also unexcelled 
as a gas producer, and with proper care to exclude the sul¬ 
phurous portions, makes a good quality of coke. 

“ The coal from the Fairmont region has long been used in the 
principal cities for the manufacture of illuminating gas, the 
yield per ton being quite as large and the quality as good as 
that from the same coal obtained at the famous gas mines of 
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.” 

It is of course generally known that the Pittsburg seam is being 
extensively mined in southwestern Pennsylvania. The properties of 
this Company lie within three miles of the Pennsylvania state line. 



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In the Twenty-second Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Sur¬ 
vey, in papers on the bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania, etc., the 
following statement occurs regarding the great Pittsburg vein. 

“This is the most uniform in quality and thickness and 
for a given area, the most valuable coal bed in the bitumin¬ 
ous coal field of Pennsylvania.” 

“In quality the coal of the Pittsburg bed is for many 
purposes equal if not superior to the best bituminous coal 
found elsewhere in the Appalachian field or in the world. It 
is an excellent domestic and steam fuel, its calorific value, as 
determined by Prof. N. W. Lord, being in B. T. U. 13,557. 
It mines in large blocks, which withstand the rough usage 
incident to long shipments and frequent breaking of bulk, and 
consequently it is well adapted for export and for the more 
distant home markets. It is a high standard producer of 
illuminating gas, containing from 36 to 38 per cent of volatile 
combustible matter in portions of the field. For the manu¬ 
facture of coke the Pittsburg has few if any equals in the 
United States.” 

“ The Pittsburg bed of southwestern Pennsylvania is the 
standard gas and coking coal in North America. It has a 
high reputation also as a steam coal. Of the enormous tonnage 
from this bed, including about three-fifths of the total pro¬ 
duction of bituminous coal in the State, a considerable pro¬ 
portion is consumed in the iron industries and innumerable 
other manufacturing establishments in Pittsburg and the neigh¬ 
boring cities of western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. The 
famous Connellsville coke is distributed throughout the north- 

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eastern United States, Canada, the Western States, and Mexico 
The Pittsburg gas coal is distributed from the Atlantic ocean 
to the Rocky Mountains. Shipments are made to tide water 
at Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, or on the Gulf of 
Mexico by way of barges down the Monongahela and Ohio 
rivers. A large portion of the consignments to the South¬ 
western and Gulf States, as well as Mexico, are transported 
by the water route,” 






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SECTION AT BELTON. 

Approximate scale 150 feet to 1 inch. 

All of the oil wells have passed through the Pittsburg vein. 



Outline Map Showing the Location of the Summit Coal Company’s Mines and 

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ANALYSES OF THE PITTSBURG COAL 

from Dr. I. C. White s Report on Coal , West Va. Geol. Szirvey. 

(p. 206). 


The average of 95 analyses gives the following result: 

Moisture.0.89 

Volatile Matter ..... 38.52 

Fixed Carbon ...... 53.55 

Ash ...... 7.04 

Sulphur .2.48 

Phosphorus . 0.0121 


On the properties of the Summit Coal Company, the Pittsburg 
vein lies from 400 to 600 feet below the surface of the valleys. Above 
the Pittsburg seam are several other veins, known as the Mapleton or 
Sewickley, which lies about 110 feet above the Pittsburg, and the 
Waynesburg, approximately 270 feet above the Pittsburg. Below the 
Pittsburg are the veins of the Conemaugh series, and those of the 
Allegheny series. A t present operations zvillbe confined to the Pittsburg 
vein , and this bed only will be considered in this statement. The vein 
has been proven by many drill holes made for oil on the properties of 
the Company, and the adjacent lands. There are now five oil produc¬ 
ing wells at Belton, from 2800 to 3000 feet deep, all of which have 
passed through the Pittsburg vein. There are three other wells which 
are not drilled deep enough for oil, but all of them struck the Pittsburg 
coal bed. Within a mile and a half of Belton, on Fish creek is the 
Crim No. 1 well which, according to information, encountered the 
Pittsburg vein at a depth of 630 feet. The records of other wells give 
the depth at which the Pittsburg seam was encountered from 650 to 
800 feet. The elevations of the top of the various drill holes must of 
course be considered in forming conclusions as to the exact depth at 
which the Pittsburg coal bed lies. 

On the Glen Easton tract, as well as the lands adjoining it, are a 
large number of drill holes, all of which have struck the Pittsburg seam. 




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Several of the photographs taken by the writer have been reproduced 
for this report. 

The oil-well driller is required to identify the coal correctly in the 
great petroleum districts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania between 
the Ohio and the Monongahela rivers, where it is buried from sight by 
the Permian beds. It is there a key-lock for determining the amount of 
casing and the depth of the oil lands, and thus many dollars of expense 
depend upon the correctness of the driller’s identification. It is as¬ 
serted that in the hundreds and even thousands of holes drilled in this 
area, he has only two or three mistakes charged against his accuracy of 
discrimination. 

The Pittsburg vein has also been proven by a number of diamond 
drill holes, made in adjacent lands, near Fish creek. All of these have 
encountered the Pittsburg bed. 

The Pittsburg vein is being extensively worked in several mines 
at and near Moundsville, distant in a direct line only eight miles 
northwest of Glen Easton. At the Moundsville shaft, 153 feet deep, 
the workable coal of the Pittsburg bed is from five to six feet thick. At 
the Glendale mine shaft, which is 95 feet deep to the Pittsburg, the 
coal is also from five to six feet thick. These mines were visited by 
the writer. 

According to Dr. I. C. White’s report, the coal at the Benwood 
mine, five miles north of the Glendale, is six and one-half feet thick, 
and with the roof coal, eight feet. 

DEVELOPMENT AND EQUIPMENT. 

The site for the working shaft on the Belton tract was selected 
during my first examination of the property several weeks ago. The 
exact location of the same and that of the tipple and of the sidings, 
however, will be determined upon the completion of the detailed surveys 
now being made. The shaft will be about 26 x 13 feet in size and 600 
feet deep, and will be equipped with hoisting machinery, etc., of a 
capacity of about 2000 tons per day. 

A similar equipment is recommended for the development of the 
Glen Easton tract. As already stated, the valley of Grave creek, through 
which the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad runs, forming- 
in general the northern boundary of this tract, offers many favorable 
locations for working plants, railroad sidings and necessary buildings. 




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The depth of the shaft in this portion of the property will be ap¬ 
proximately 400 feet to the Pittsburg seam. 

THICKNESS OF THE PITTSBURG VEIN ON THE COMPANY’S PROPERTY. 

The thickness of the workable coal of the Pittsburg vein on the 

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Company’s properties can be estimated with absolute safety at five and 
one-half feet. This will yield 9500 tons to the acre. 

AMOUNT OF COAL CONTAINED IN THE PITTSBURG VEIN ON THE COMPANY’S 

PROPERTIES. 

At 9500 tons of minable coal to the acre, the amount of coal con¬ 
tained in the Pittsburg seam on the Company’s properties is something 
over 100,000,000 tons ; allowing 10$ for waste in mining and handling 
the coal, the amount can safely be placed at 90,000,000 tons. 

At a production of 4000 tons per day, the tonnage in the Pitts¬ 
burg vein on this property will last about seventy-five (75) years. 

Owing to the large tonnage which will be available from the 
Pittsburg vein alone the other veins can certainly be left out of con¬ 
sideration at the present time. 

REVENUES OF THE COMPANY. 

With a daily production of 4000 tons, the Company should earn a 
net profit of about $600,000 per annum. With a complete and 7 nodern 
plant , the expense of mining and delivering the coal to the railroad 
cars should not exceed 60 cents per ton, with day labor. In many of 
the mines the miners are paid by the ton of coal mined. In starting 
up work on these tracts, the Company will have the advantage of 
erecting up-to-date plants, with all improvements in hoisting and min¬ 
ing machinery. With coal cutting machines, all mining work ought to 
be done by day labor. 


CONCLUSION. 

The facilities for the development of these coal properties are all 
that could be desired. Their situation on the main line of the Balti¬ 
more and Ohio railroad will enable the Company to make shipments 



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practically as soon as one of the working shafts has reached the vein. 
In the possession of these coal lands, aggregating 11,300 acres, covering 
the famous Pittsburg seam, the Company has a very valuable prop¬ 
erty, which, when completely equipped for a production of 4000 tons 
per day, will earn very good dividends. A production of only 2000 
tons per day. however, will be sufficient to pay a good dividend on 
the whole investment. The value of the coal lands is bound to increase 
every year. 



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MouNDSVILU Mine, Moundsville, w Va. 



Roof Coal... 2fi 

Over Clav _10 in 

Coal _2 ft 

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Coal_ 6 m. 

Slate _t in. 

Co AI_.1 ft 6 in. 

Slate_ \ in. 

Coai _1 ff. 6 in. 


BeNWOOD MlNE, 8miles north of Moundsville.VY. Va. 



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Coal _4 in. 

Slate _-jr in 

Coal _Iff. 5 in. 

Slate _4 in. 

Coal_ 10 in. 


For otherSections see Report ; IV Fa GeolSurvey. 


Note-. 

c The type of structure of the Pittssurg Coal Bed is practl 
catty the same throughout the coat field .The different 
takers of the structure nary considerably In thickness in 
different parts of the Retd and mines. 

In Ihe several sectons showing the Waynesburg.Sewickley, 
and. FUtsbura Coal Veins, accompanying this report, the 
thickness of the Pittsburg Vein is given from5 to6 feet, or 
5z feet in the average.This refers to the mineable coai onty, 
the roof coat ichich is not mined being omittedin con¬ 
sidering the thickness of the Pittbuig bed. Inclusive of 
the roof coat the thickness of the Pittsburg bed. on the 
Summit Coat Company's properties is from 6\ to 
8i feet. The oil well drillers report it to be 9 ft. thick 
at Belton. 



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APPENDIX. 


COAL PRODUCTION OF WEST VIRGINIA. 

(PAGE 709, VOL. TWO, REPORT ON COAL, WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.) 

“The growth of coal production in West Virginia has been con¬ 
stantly increasing during the past thirty years, with the exception of 
two years due to prolonged strikes. Beginning with only 672,000 short 
tons in 1873, the ^ rst year for which we have definite statistics, pro¬ 
duction has grown until the present year bids fair to surpass 25,000,000 
short tons, barring any serious strikes or labor difficulties. The time 
must soon come when West Virginia will pass Illinois and become the 
second State in coal production instead of third, a place she has held 
since 1895, when Ohio was left behind.” 


COAL PRODUCTION OF WEST VIRGINIA SINCE 1892. 

SHORT TONS. 


FROM VOL. TWO, COAL REPORT, WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 


(page 716.) 

1892 ..... 

1893 ..... 

1894 . 

1895 ..... 

1896 . . . . . 

1897 ..... 

1898 . . . . . 

1899 ..... 

I 900 • • • • • 

1901 • • • • • 

1902 * » • • • 

1903 (Estimated) 


9 . 738,755 
10,708,578 
11,627,757 
11,387,961 
12,876,296 
14,248,159 
16,700,999 

i 9,252,995 

22,647,207 

24,068,402 

24 , 307,387 

25,760,000 


FROM U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT FOR 1901. 

“ There is another respect in which the coal-mining industry of 
West Virginia stands distinctly alone. This is in the fact that although 
its production now approaches 25,000,000 tons per year, the amount of 
this fuel consumed within the State’s borders is almost insignificant, if 




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the amount consumed by the transportation companies is excluded. 
There are some iron and steel manufacturing industries in Wheeling 
and vicinity, which utilize West Virginia coal, but except for these, the 
manufacturing industries in the State are almost entirely undeveloped, 
and by far the greater proportion of the fuel taken from West 
Virginia mines goes to feed and support the manufacturing enter¬ 
prises of neighboring States. This has probably been the result 
of the fact that the railroad companies penetrating the coal fields have 
been identified with the coal mining interests, and have been glad 
to get the advantage of long hauls in the way of transportation. 

Some of the West Virginia coals are highly prized , both for steam 
raising and coke making. They are used to a large extent by the United 
States Government for naval vessels , and are shipped either in the form 
of coal or coke to blast furnaces and steel works as far from the coal 
regions as Chicago and Milwaukee , in competition with fuels mined al¬ 
most in the immediate vicinity of these cities .” 






































































NOV 2 


1903 










